A Bibliophile's Reverie
"Fantastic...engrossing...Elizabeth Fremantle does a superb job, giving us a rich, psychological dimension to all the characters in this novel...displays the hidden, rich lives of women...which are sometimes...left understated in the history books."
CompassBooksRatings.com
Sisters of Treason is thrilling historical fiction… Well-paced and highly entertaining...nearly impossible to put down.
AreCafe.com
Fremantle’s story is vivid and tense, rich in all the drama that defined the Tudor Era, particularly the question of its future.
M.C Scott
Passionate, compassionate, intricate, sharp, clever and utterly compelling.
Leanda de Lisle
An enthralling story of love and tyranny, Sisters of Treason brings the Tudor Courts to life again, in all their romance and horror.
The Sunday Times
Fremantle manages to combine pacey storytelling with superb background…terrifically entertaining.
PopSugar
"If you love historic royal fiction (with a dash of romance) you'll want to pick up Elizabeth Fremantle's Sisters of Treason, about two sisters reeling after the execution of their teenage sister, having been on the throne for just days."
Library Journal
06/15/2014
Most historical fiction fans are familiar with the story of Lady Jane Grey, the Tudor pawn who spent nine days on the English throne before being usurped by Mary I, but few know what became of her two sisters, Catherine and Mary, in the tumult of royal succession after Edward VI's death. Fremantle (Queen's Gambit) offers her own interpretation. After Mary Tudor executes Jane, the Grey family falls out of favor, but the sisters' Tudor blood means the monarchy must keep them close. Catherine, impetuous and beautiful, is constantly falling in love regardless of the consequences. Born with a crooked spine, younger sister Mary is treated in turns as a favorite pet or a pariah. Levina Teerlinc, a Bruges-born court artist famous for her miniature portraits, promises herself to watch out for these girls in the dangerous dance of court intrigue. Told from the perspectives of these three women, the novel presents a picture of court life full of secret affairs, treasonous plots, and very real dangers. VERDICT Tudor fiction fans will enjoy Fremantle's fresh take, marked by solid writing and absorbing detail, on a rather well-told tale.—Anna Nelson Karras, Naples Regional Lib., FL
